Baltic Languages

The Debitive Mood: Why Latvian Has a Special Way to Say “Must”

Unlike most European languages which rely on modal verbs like "must" or "have to", Latvian utilizes a unique grammatical feature…

6 days ago

The Broken Tone: How Finnic Neighbors Shaped the Latvian Sound

While Latvian and Lithuanian share ancient roots, Latvian developed a unique sound characterized by fixed initial stress and a distinct…

6 days ago

Inside the Dainu Skapis: The Cabinet That Saved a Language

Discover the incredible history of the Dainu skapis, a 19th-century card catalog built by Krišjānis Barons that houses over 200,000…

6 days ago

The Balto-Slavic Mystery: Are They Siblings or Cousins?

A Lithuanian and a Pole can't understand each other, so why do linguists insist their languages are close relatives? We…

3 months ago

The ‘About-To-Be’ Tense of Lithuanian

Lithuanian, one of Europe's oldest languages, possesses a fascinating grammatical tool that English lacks: a specific way to talk about…

6 months ago

The Last Words of Old Prussian: How a Language Was Erased by the Sword

The death of a language is usually a slow fade, but Old Prussian was not so lucky. It was systematically…

6 months ago

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